Background: Immunization programmes are ethically defensible and society has a significant role to play in providing vaccination against measles and safeguarding herd immunity to optimize its individuals' capabilities. Since preventive actions interfere with individuals who consider themselves as healthy, public health strategies - as distinct from advice in a clinical consultation - require somet

Computer simulations were used to study the effect of a single reinforcement fiber added to a mechanical fibre network. The stresses of the surrounding fibers and inter-fiber bonds increased proportionally to the logarithm of the elastic stiffness of the reinforcement fibre. In the case of fiber failure the breaking stress of the model system increased only little and breaking strain decreased lit

BACKGROUND: Maltose metabolism is initiated by an ATP-dependent permease system in Lactococcus lactis. The subsequent degradation of intracellular maltose is performed by the concerted action of Pi-dependent maltose phosphorylase and beta-phosphoglucomutase. In some Gram-positive bacteria, maltose metabolism is regulated by a maltose operon regulator (MalR), belonging to the LacI-GalR family of tr

I Kyrkohistorisk Årsskrift, som jag numera redigerar, har jag redovisat hur kyrkoadjunkten som kyrklig tjänst infördes inte 1936, inte heller – som Brilioth anger – 1910. Det första belägg jag funnit för kyrkoadjunkt som en särskilt inrättad och i särskild ordning avlönad tjänst är från Karlskrona 1850. Senare inrättades kyrkoadjunkturer särskilt i Lunds och Göteborgs stift i stora församlingar i

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In this dissertation, Borhanedin A. Yassin analyses Kurdish nationalism, particularly in Iran, by examining a variety of factors, some within the Kurdish community itself, others lying outside of it, i.e. in the policy of the states where the Kurds reside, and in the wider international arena. In this study the Kurdish people are linked to major developments in the period 1941-1947, with particula

The evidence for dispersal activity among soil-living invertebrates comes mainly from observations of their movement on artificial substrates or of colonisation of defaunated soils in the field. In an attempt to elucidate the dispersal pattern of soil collembolans in the presence of conspecifics, statistical analyses were undertaken to describe and simulate the movement of groups of Onychiurus arm

Observer performance studies are time-consurning tasks, both for the participating observers and for the scientists collecting and analysing the data. A possible way to optimise such studies is to perform them in a completely digital environment. A software tool-ViewDEX (Viewer for Digital Evaluation of X-ray images)-has been developed in Java, enabling it to function on almost any computer. ViewD

To test the hypothesis that the A/T polymorphism of the fatty acid-binding protein 2 gene (FABP2) is associated with impaired lipid metabolism and cardiovascular disease, we compared clinical characteristics and a parental history of cardiovascular disease between 213 sibling pairs discordant for the polymorphism. Siblings with an excess of the T54 allele had higher triglyceride (P = 0.002) and ch